Backup / Restore Network Edition

Hello all,

I currently have the network edition (7.2.7) running on Centos 6.x x64 as a esxi guest. This has worked flawlessly for 3 years or so. I now want to migrate from this server to a new dedicated server that I have access to. I have been doing plenty of research into this as I want to ensure as smooth a cutover as possible. I have setup a brand new VM (KVM) with the exact same version of Centos and exactly the same HOSTNAME, OS packages installed etc. Now I'm thinking that migration should be very straightforward as I can easily install the exact same version of zimbra and then something like rsync my /opt/zimbra directory from OLD to NEW. Voila !!!!

When staying in the same version, what I used to do was install Zimbra (same version) on the new server with the --softwareonly flag on install (to install the RPMs). Then you can (while the old server is still running and zimbra on the new one isn't running) do an rsync of /opt/zimbra and any other zimbra storage volumes/index volumes to the new server. You then stop Zimbra on the old server, do a final rsync, and start up on the new server.